books.google.co.uk - Recent research has called into question the orthodox view that the last two centuries of the Roman Republic witnessed a decline of the free rural population. Yet the implications of the alternative reconstructions of Italy's demographic history that have been proposed have never been explored systematically....https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/People_Land_and_Politics.html?id=4toKjuTLOQUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePeople, Land, and Politics